Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 24 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure 95 15 40
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 11.99% 5.26% 9.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.69% 18.99% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 12 34
10th Percentile £322 £481 £188
25th Percentile £427 £492 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £529 £592
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -10.61% +1.76%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £679
90th Percentile £688 £729 £1,038
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 320 79 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 40.40% 27.72% 25.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 51 88
10th Percentile £312 £363 £343
25th Percentile £403 £450 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £510 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -10.21% +3.27%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £610
90th Percentile £613 £675 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £54.00 £41.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year +31.71% - +64.00%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +5 91 £486 -8.09% 33
Doncaster - 3 £413 - 11
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.37%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.11%) CICS
3 2 (2.11%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.05%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 65 (68.42%) AWS
2 56 (58.95%) GCP
3 14 (14.74%) OpenShift
4 13 (13.68%) Entra ID
5 10 (10.53%) GitHub
6 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (7.37%) Power Platform
7 7 (7.37%) SaaS
8 6 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.21%) Akamai
9 4 (4.21%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
10 3 (3.16%) Cloudflare
10 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.11%) AWS KMS
11 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.11%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.11%) Collibra
11 2 (2.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.79%) Firewall
2 8 (8.42%) DNS
3 6 (6.32%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.26%) VPN
5 4 (4.21%) HTTP
5 4 (4.21%) Kerberos
6 3 (3.16%) HTTPS
7 2 (2.11%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (2.11%) iSCSI
7 2 (2.11%) LAN
7 2 (2.11%) NAS
7 2 (2.11%) Network Security
7 2 (2.11%) SAN
7 2 (2.11%) SSL
7 2 (2.11%) VSAN
7 2 (2.11%) WAN
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (1.05%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.37%) Power BI
2 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.32%) MySQL
4 4 (4.21%) Metadata
5 3 (3.16%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.11%) DataStage
6 2 (2.11%) DB2
7 1 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.05%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.05%) Redis
7 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.05%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (29.47%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.11%) JIRA
3 18 (18.95%) GitLab
4 14 (14.74%) Selenium
5 10 (10.53%) Cucumber
5 10 (10.53%) REST Assured
6 9 (9.47%) Git
7 8 (8.42%) Postman
8 5 (5.26%) TestRail
9 3 (3.16%) CircleCI
9 3 (3.16%) JUnit
9 3 (3.16%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.11%) TestNG
10 2 (2.11%) Zephyr
11 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (1.05%) Travis CI
11 1 (1.05%) WebDriver
General
1 43 (45.26%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.16%) Finance
3 17 (17.89%) Banking
4 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Law
5 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Police
7 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.05%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.05%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (14.74%) Architect
2 12 (12.63%) Lead
3 9 (9.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (8.42%) Developer
5 7 (7.37%) Test Automation Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Test Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.26%) Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) Automation Test Lead
8 4 (4.21%) Product Owner
8 4 (4.21%) Senior
8 4 (4.21%) Test Leader
9 3 (3.16%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.16%) Lead Test Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.16%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) LDAP
2 18 (18.95%) REST
3 14 (14.74%) OpenID
4 11 (11.58%) SailPoint
5 7 (7.37%) .NET
5 7 (7.37%) Middleware
6 6 (6.32%) OAuth
7 5 (5.26%) Regular Expression
7 5 (5.26%) SAML
8 4 (4.21%) Hugging Face
8 4 (4.21%) JSON
8 4 (4.21%) Kafka
8 4 (4.21%) OpenCV
8 4 (4.21%) PyTorch
8 4 (4.21%) SpaCy
8 4 (4.21%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.21%) XML
9 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (9.47%) Onboarding
2 9 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.37%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.21%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.21%) IoT
5 3 (3.16%) Replication
5 3 (3.16%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.11%) Clustering
6 2 (2.11%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.11%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.05%) FMCG
7 1 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) PDA
7 1 (1.05%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Linux
2 9 (9.47%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Unix
4 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.11%) Solaris
4 2 (2.11%) VMS
4 2 (2.11%) zOS
5 1 (1.05%) CentOS
5 1 (1.05%) MVS
5 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.37%) DevOps
2 42 (44.21%) CI/CD
3 22 (23.16%) Agile
4 17 (17.89%) Containerisation
4 17 (17.89%) Roadmaps
4 17 (17.89%) Test Automation
5 15 (15.79%) Migration
5 15 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (14.74%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (12.63%) API Testing
9 11 (11.58%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (11.58%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
10 10 (10.53%) DevSecOps
10 10 (10.53%) ETL
10 10 (10.53%) Manual Testing
10 10 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (9.47%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.42%) Java
1 27 (28.42%) Python
2 24 (25.26%) SQL
3 8 (8.42%) Bash
3 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.32%) PHP
5 4 (4.21%) Groovy
6 2 (2.11%) C#
6 2 (2.11%) Go
6 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (4.21%) ISTQB
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (4.21%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.16%) CEH
2 3 (3.16%) CISM
2 3 (3.16%) CISSP
2 3 (3.16%) GIAC
2 3 (3.16%) GWAPT
2 3 (3.16%) SAP Certification
3 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.11%) Degree
4 1 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.05%) CCA
4 1 (1.05%) CCSK
4 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) QA
2 4 (4.21%) GDPR
2 4 (4.21%) SLA
3 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (15.79%) Docker
2 11 (11.58%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.16%) KVM
6 2 (2.11%) NFS
6 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
6 2 (2.11%) vSphere
7 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (1.05%) Ceph
7 1 (1.05%) QEMU
7 1 (1.05%) Snort
7 1 (1.05%) SRDF
7 1 (1.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.05%) Xen
7 1 (1.05%) XenApp
7 1 (1.05%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (33.68%) Kubernetes
2 23 (24.21%) Terraform
3 21 (22.11%) Ansible
4 8 (8.42%) Grafana
5 4 (4.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.21%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.11%) Argo
6 2 (2.11%) CSIRT
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.11%) Puppet
6 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.05%) Kibana
7 1 (1.05%) logstash
7 1 (1.05%) Podman
7 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.74%) F5
3 12 (12.63%) ServiceNow
4 11 (11.58%) Google
5 10 (10.53%) Oracle
6 6 (6.32%) Splunk
6 6 (6.32%) VMware
7 5 (5.26%) Cisco
8 4 (4.21%) Imperva
8 4 (4.21%) NetApp
8 4 (4.21%) SAP
9 3 (3.16%) AppDynamics
9 3 (3.16%) EMC
9 3 (3.16%) MuleSoft
10 2 (2.11%) Delphix
10 2 (2.11%) IBM
10 2 (2.11%) Informatica
10 2 (2.11%) OpenAI
10 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.05%) Salesforce